*LOL*
Yeah..know what you mean.
OT,no offense,but i just did a quickie on the turbo gun in my car...speaking of revulcanizing..*ROTFLMFAO*

..and my fellow motorist looks kind of funny at me when i start pullin that crap doing 80 or so out on the freeway
People sincerly lack a sense of humour...

Time for an update.
The car moves with its own power, no more pushing.
Mounted an aluminum expansion tank with some tabs welded to the bulkhead, need to repaint a little.
Also finished the throttle cable, which is made from a W140 long cable, adjustable end of a W201 cable, and a GM piece crimped and soldered to the end to mate with the throttle body.


Used some heat shrink hose clamps on the coolant tee's, look pretty sweet IMO.



Painted the removable center bulkhead piece and mounted the flexible trans dipstick and passenger side brake line.


Made some custom brake lines, also my 180 degree braided fuel line fittings. I need to do something about the ugly master cylinder reservoir, this works for now.


Running low speed fans(20A) through ballest resistor and high speed fans(40A) through 80A continuous duty relay.
They both have thier own relay in the fusebox, controlled by the PCM which I have reprogrammed to run a 2-speed single instead of 2-speed double fan setup.
The large battery cable going towards the engine routes all the way to a firewall pass-through next to the starter. I ran an SL battery cable from the other side to the trunk.


Had a guy at a body shop I know paint the front fenders...


and front bumper.


The rest of the car will be painted soon, now that I can move the car without pushing.

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LS190
190e with 5.7L aluminum V8
LS190 runs!

Good Luck Gen3Benz. It's nice to not have to push. I have to do breaks on my other car soon so the pushing will begin.

What are the MB 201 and BMW E35, Chevy conversions doing for suspension corrections?

John Roncallo

None (yet). The LS6 is about 60 pounds lighter than the m117 so I don't expect it to make much difference. That said, I have this brand new Dewalt High Torque angle grinder and the tools to take out the springs....

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There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
FrankenBenz: '87 560SEC with an '02 cammed LS6 and custom 4L60E.
Bling: '87 560SEC, ported/polished, lowered
Lisa: '87 560SEL, lowered

Yes you don't have any corrections because you have a 126 that already had an 8 cly. I'm talking about people who go from a 4 cyl to an 8 cyl be it Chevy or Benz.

John Roncallo

Oops - misunderstood. I'd just get a set of front springs from a W126 V8 car and install them. I found out that if you cut 1 1/8 turns off the bottom of a stock SEL front spring, the front drops about 1 1/4". I'd expect that pretty much any V8 car will have acceptable springs for this use. I cut off too much on the SEL (1 1/4 turns) and used a 4-nub spacer to bring the front back up where it needs to sit.

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There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
FrankenBenz: '87 560SEC with an '02 cammed LS6 and custom 4L60E.
Bling: '87 560SEC, ported/polished, lowered
Lisa: '87 560SEL, lowered

update ?

Gen3Benz - fantastic project. Where did you learn to do all this; do you have your own shop?